New edition of IMFS Newsletter online available

24. August 2017

In the IMFS Update August 2017, Volker Wieland, Managing Director of the IMFS, strongly supports a more rule-oriented approach in monetary policy. In his opinion, the European Central Bank (ECB) should already have started phasing out quantitative easing.

These are the topics of the IMFS Update August:

IMFS Distinguished Lecture with Jens Weidmann, President of Deutsche Bundesbank, on 14 September

R-Star Wars - John Williams, President of the San Francisco Fed, and Volker Wieland discuss about the neutral rate of interest, moderated by John B. Taylor (with video)

Comparing models - the first research conference of the Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison Network (MMCN)